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When it comes to buying a rare pair of one of those Adidas or Nike shoes you might have already faced the fact that the top-of-the-line sneakers are hard to buy: producers ship only limited batches that can be sold out within seconds from the renowned online stores. 

Partnership with GoLogin

We at PrivateProxy are happy to announce our partnership with GoLogin, a service for managing multiple user accounts from a single computer. 

In the world of proxies you come across various types of servers that vary by their functionality and methods of data transfer. If we consider proxies by location, then we have residential and datacenter servers. And by the type of operation proxies can be rotating or static. But when you see HTTPS or SSL proxies you should know that here the name refers to the protocol of the proxy server. 

With over 4 billion million users worldwide, social media platforms have become a lucrative data tidbit for market analysts, recruitment executives and business owners around the planet. This fact dramatically increased the popularity of all types of data scraping on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin: bots and automated scrapers crawl the social media for geo-targeted info on businesses, prospect candidates, customers and decision makers in all possible areas. But is it all legal in the first place? And how can you maintain ethical standards while automating your process of gathering publicly available data from social media platforms? 

If you are a regular Internet user surfing the web you should know that sometimes your browsing is interrupted by a special test or quiz that requires solving before you can proceed with viewing the requested page.

Did you know that over 40% of all search requests on Google are local? At the same time, local businesses are not in a hurry to put their online credentials in order to be on the first page of search results or get into Google's ‘Snack Pack’ (special Google search area that features three businesses with ratings below a flagged local area map). The statistics show that over half of local retailers haven’t even claimed their presence on Google My Business.

All popular search engines like Google or Bing have one thing in common: they want to provide search results to humans not robots. And, whenever you want to engage in scraping the search engine results with a proxy, you will have a certain risk of getting banned or facing Captcha.